Tata Steel is aligning its India decarbonisation plan with a “tap the scrap” strategy, leaning on steel recycling to move toward a circular economy. With India facing a deficit in ferrous scrap, the company’s high-stakes recycling business could reshape how steel is sourced and produced—while supporting its goal of greener operations by 2030.
India’s steelmakers are scaling up and shifting toward greener production, but a quieter bottleneck is emerging. Steel scrap—the key input for many mills—is getting harder to source and increasingly expensive. As demand rises with capacity targets, securing reliable scrap supply could slow projects, squeeze margins, and complicate the transition to low-carbon steel.
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